@Paul, Agree on the confusion and difficulty in using those blasted protect_class numbers. Let those issues be resolved in the boundary tag. I'm already tagging using protect_class along with the boundary tag and for insurance toss in the boundary:type tag. It's a lot of tagging that could be simplified immensely if we could just settle on one. IMO, boundary=aboriginal_lands says it all.
On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 8:23 AM Paul Allen <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 25, 2018 at 12:40 AM Alan McConchie <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> Should we use the single tag boundary=aboriginal_lands for these areas? >> Or should we deprecate that tag (in other words, reject the proposal) and >> instead use boundary=protected_area + protect_class=24? >> > > My gut feeling is that protect_class is an abomination. > > Numbers are fine, where numbers are appropriate. Like the address of a > house, or the service > number for a bus, or the elevation of a peak. Protect_class is a > horrible, ugly mess. You cannot > easily figure out which value to use (first check with the WDPA, then try > to figure out from a gigantic > look-up table which value to use). To make it easy for mappers, instead > of just having a list of > possible values like "national_park," "historical_reserve" or whatever, > editors will need a look-up > table (not difficult to code, but unnecessary) from natural concepts like > "nature reserve" to 57 > (or whatever the number is). All data consumers like apps will need a > lookup table to translate from > number to concept so users can make sense of it (or put up with the > information that "You are now > entering a 37"). People using the query tool with the standard carto will > either have to then go through > the wiki to do a lookup or such a lookup will have to be built into the > code that handles queries. > > Gut feeling, late at night: anything has to be better than protect_class. > I must be missing something > since it presumably went through the approval process and passed, and > people actually use it, but > right now it looks like Satan conceived it to torment mappers before they > die. > > -- > Paul > > _______________________________________________ > Tagging mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/tagging > -- Dave Swarthout Homer, Alaska Chiang Mai, Thailand Travel Blog at http://dswarthout.blogspot.com
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